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Perennials
Understanding Perennial Plants
The Lifelong Companions of Gardens
Perennial plants are the stalwart heroes of the gardening world, offering beauty, resilience, and sustainability year after year. Unlike annuals, which live only for a single growing season, perennials endure, returning each spring to grace gardens with their presence. This characteristic makes them a favorite among gardeners who seek to create lasting landscapes.
Definition and Characteristics
Perennial plants are those that live for more than two years. Their life cycle allows them to grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die back during autumn and winter, and rebirth the following spring from their rootstock rather than from seeds. This cyclical nature is a key aspect of their appeal, as gardeners can rely on them to reappear without the need for replanting.
Types of Perennials
Perennials come in various forms, including herbaceous perennials, woody perennials, and semi-woody perennials.
· Herbaceous perennials: These plants, such as peonies and hostas, die back to the ground each winter and regrow in the spring.
· Woody perennials: Shrubs and trees like roses and hydrangeas retain their structure year-round.
· Semi-woody perennials: Plants like lavender fall between herbaceous and woody, maintaining some above-ground structure during dormancy.
Advantages of Growing Perennials
Perennial plants offer numerous benefits that make them indispensable in garden design.
· Longevity: Their extended life cycle means gardeners can enjoy their beauty for many years without the need for annual replanting.
· Cost-effective: Investing in perennials can be economical over time, as they eliminate the annual expense of purchasing new plants.
· Environmental benefits: Perennials help reduce soil erosion, support pollinators, and improve soil health through their deep and extensive root systems.
· Variety: A vast array of perennials exists, offering endless options for color, texture, and form in garden design.
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Actaea simplex 'Cimicifuga' - Pink Spike Bugbane - Shipped
Pink Spike Bugbane is a compact striking perennial plant that is known for its frilly fern-like chocolate burgundy foliage that emerges bright gree...
View full detailsCoreopsis x 'Goldilocks' - Lil' Bang™ Goldilocks Tickseed - Shipped
Goldilocks Tickseed is a dwarf mounding perennial with narrow bright green foliage. Fringed golden yellow daisy-like flowers with burgundy red cen...
View full detailsSolidago bicolor - Silverrod - Shipped
Silverrod is a native herbaceous perennial with a narrow upright habit and eliptical foliage along the stems. The raceme of tiny yellowish-white f...
View full detailsAruncus dioicus - Goat's Beard - Shipped
Goat's Beard is a tall native herbaceous perennial with pinnately compound dark green foliage. Showy plumes of creamy flowers rise above the folia...
View full detailsHypericum patulum 'Hidcote' - Hidcote St. John's Wort - Shipped
Hidcote St. John's Wort is a compact deciduous shrub with twiggy upright red stems and lace-shaped dark green foliage. The large waxy golden yello...
View full detailsKniphofia 'Blazing Orange' - PW® Pyromania® Blazing Orange Red Hot Poker, Torch Lily - Shipped
Orange Blaze Red Hot Poker is a semi-evergreen perennial with upright grass like dark green leaves. A succession of thick showy spikes sporting a ...
View full detailsAsclepias tuberosa - Butterfly Weed - Shipped
Butterfly Weed is a tough, long-season clumping native perennial with long narrow leaves. Its abundant clusters of bright orange or yellow-orange ...
View full detailsHosta x 'Paul's Glory' - Paul's Glory Hosta - Shipped
Paul's Glory Hosta is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for its foliage. The large variegated basal foliage have blue green marg...
View full detailsIris versicolor - Northern Blue Flag Iris, Harlequin Blue Flag - Shipped
Northern Blue Flag Iris is a marginal deciduous perennial with a clumping habit. The long blue-green sword-like foliage is erect and lightly arche...
View full detailsGeranium sanguineum 'New Hampshire Purple' - New Hampshire Purple Geranium - Shipped
New Hampshire Purple Geranium is a low-mounding evergreen perennial with trailing stems holding deeply lobed green foliage that turns red after the...
View full detailsHibiscus x 'Minsybv3s01' - Paraplu Violet® Rose of Sharon - Shipped
Paraplu Violet Rose of Sharon is a woody perennial with an upright habit and finely lobed deep green foliage. Huge cool blue-violet flowers with d...
View full detailsCeanothus americanus - New Jersey Tea - Shipped
New Jersey Tea is a compact rounded native shrub with young twigs that are noticeably yellow and broad toothed leaves with hairy grey undersides. ...
View full detailsSedum ‘Popstar’ - Rock 'N Round™ Popstar Stonecrop - Shipped
Popstar Stonecrop is a low mounding semi-evergreen succulent with whorls of fleshy light blue-green foliage. Dense clusters of tiny salmon pink st...
View full detailsAster novae-angliae 'Alma Potchke' - Alma Potchke New England Aster - Shipped
Alma Potchke New England Aster is a native perennial with a dense mounded habit and tightly packed deep green lance-like foliage. The large, lacy ...
View full detailsLavandula x intermedia 'Provence' - Provence Lavender - Shipped
Provence Lavender is a compact woody evergreen perennial with highly aromatic silver-green leaves popular for potpourri. The square stems end with ...
View full detailsRudbeckia fulgoda var speciosa 'Blovi' - Viettes Little Suzy Black-Eyed Susan - Shipped
Viettes Little Suzy Black-Eyed Susan is a dwarf native herbaceous perennial with an upright clumping habit and narrow dark green foliage that turns...
View full detailsPhlox paniculata 'Luminary Backlight' - Luminary® Backlight Phlox - Shipped
Backlight Phlox is a native compact perennial with a bushy habit and sturdy stems covered with dark green lance-shaped foliage. Well formed panicl...
View full detailsTiarella 'Fingerpaint' - Fingerpaint Foam Flower - Shipped
Fingerpaint Foam Flower is a shade-loving semi-evergreen perennial that grows in dense clumps of bright green oak-like lobed foliage with deep burg...
View full detailsPhlox paniculata 'Blue Paradise' - Blue Paradise Phlox - Shipped
Blue Paradise Phlox is a native upright perennial with stiff stems that are covered with deep green toothed foliage. Dense clusters of spicy scent...
View full detailsHibiscus 'Evening Rose' PP33,366 - Summerific® Evening Rose Hibiscus - Shipped
Evening Rose Hibiscus is a vigorous woody perennial with a mounding habit and hardy upright stems and lobed near-black foliage with hairy underside...
View full detailsSedum 'Coraljade' - Rock 'N Grow® Coraljade Stonecrop - Shipped
Coraljade Stonecrop is an evergreen succulent that forms a low mound of flattened rich green foliage. Clusters of citron green buds open to small ...
View full detailsSalvia 'Violet Riot' - Color Spires® Violet Riot Salvia - Shipped
Violet Riot Sage is a compact upright herbaceous perennial with aromatic medium green foliage and abundant spikes of tiny two-lipped vivid violet f...
View full detailsEryngium planum 'Blue Glitter' - Blue Glitter Sea Holly - Shipped
Blue Glitter Sea Holly is an upright herbaceous perennial with toothed medium green foliage. Dark blue stems host an egg shaped cluster of steel b...
View full detailsPolemonium reptans - Jacob's Ladder - Shipped
Jacob's Ladder is a compact shade-loving perennial with sage green foliage. Its upright flowering stems sporting loose clusters of blue flowers an...
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